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iv EXPLANATORY.

BILLY 'DAMS,............ WM. A. ADAMS,

Who lives on the east side of Broadway, below Fourth street, Cincinnati; the same who heads the list of honorary members of the New York National Academy of Design.

An urgent—almost importunate—request induces me to leave out of this list a name already written for the printer; the request ex- tended to the text—but that I will not give up. The papers of to- day (March 15) give additional proof of the correctness of one at least of the amiable characteristics imputed to him.

PMU SPOPRRUNGS,, 6.0 -.%.7<ue t en L. C. HOPKINS, Dry goods merchant, at the N. E. corner of Fifth and Vine streets, Cincinnati. RRSP E EDS ferret phe os os obo tie teas R. C. PHILLIPS, a surveyor. SC RACE OHO UTD ay. Vat cgsive '» repioan. oases SKETCH-CLUB.

Though an actual person, I pass by Baby-booby ; let me say, how- ever, emphatically, that I do not mean Mr., his partner.

My landlord’s name I leave out, by particular request.

I could heartily have wished that Wm. Page, H. Leutze, T. Bu- chanan Read and Geo. L. Brown, with all of whom my personal re- lations have been pleasant, had not compelled me to write regarding them as I have done. That they are prominently before the public, that they could prove ability did they but choose to exert it, makes © the case only the worse and my duty the more imperative.

I have had no grand intention of improving the existing con- dition of Art. I wrote only because I wanted to write. My brother having disposed of my large picture, Series of Niagara No. 2, by subscription—not with that intention, however—I am enabled to print and publish this on my sole responsibility.

After the publication of this work I shall be prepared to find my- self depicted as a monster of crime, folly and vices. Should there be any who would wish to busy themselves in this way, let them use their pleasure.

Those who wish to address me will please direct to Station D, New York City.

Cincinnati, On10, March 15, 1864.

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